Some questions worth losing sleep over

The prime minister’s timing couldn’t have been worse. In the week we discovered that al-Qaeda could have found recruits in Bangalore, in the week we saw Islam’s fanatical face on full display in the battle for Lal Masjid, and in the week that Ayman al-Zawahiri reappeared on our television screens to urge all Muslims to join the jihad to destroy the West, the prime minister announced that he is losing sleep over

Muslims being “labelled”.

As a Sikh, he said sadly, he understood well the horrors of being labelled. And, as prime minister of India, he could not sleep after seeing the face of the mother of the alleged bombers from Bangalore. “We should not fix labels like Muslims or non-Muslims. It won’t help us in understanding the situation or dealing with it.”

Next week marks the first anniversary of Mumbai’s train bombings and my first question to our prime minister is, why has he never lost sleep over that ghastly event? My second question is, why can he become so eloquent over the suffering of the mothers of alleged terrorists and so sanguine over the suffering of nearly 200 Mumbai mothers who lost their children for no reason? When he made his visit to Mumbai after the July 11 bombings last year, many noticed that he exhibited no emotion. “He could have been taking a walk in Lodhi Gardens for all the emotion he showed,” a friend from Mumbai commented bitterly.

There have been other ghastly acts of terrorism on his watch and he has reacted without emotion, which makes his comments this time seem even more inappropriate. More worrying is his failure to see that what the world faces today is not just another terrorist movement, but a global jihad whose stated aim is to convert us infidels to the true faith or wipe us out. The true faith is not the

Islam that we have lived with in India, in relative harmony for

centuries, but a disagreeable Arab version that expects women to dress like black crows and men to beat them if they show a hint of skin.

In Saudi Arabia women cannot go shopping unless accompanied by a male relation. It is not an Islam we can accept in India because it is antipathetic to our civilisation and the opposite of what we stand for as a nation. It is totalitarian, intolerant of the fundamental right of women to live and dress as they choose, rigid, tribal and unpleasant. In India we are particularly vulnerable to it, because we have the second largest Muslim population in the world, and thanks to the perfidy of our political class, it is a population that has been bred on grievances. What is worse is, funds from Arabia are being used to set up schools to spread Islamist thought across our Dar-ul-Harb.

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